https://archive.org/details/Printing1947
When looking at this video, it is crazy to see where this type of industry began and the work that went into it. So many people worked in printing as it was the fourth biggest industry in the United States at this time. As shown in the video, there were different levels of work involved, some of which required a higher skill level than others. While many jobs were offered, some positions were needed to be filled with someone who had good grammar, punctuation and typing skills. Older teenagers were put in school to acquire some of these jobs in the printing factory. Nowadays, a job like this would not necessarily even require any type of post-high school education.
Our society has come so far from this time of printing. While the video showed many people still working in this industry, even more technological advances occurred, requiring less people in the processes of printing. This happened even more when society began to shift from all print to more technological based, offering things online instead of on paper. Even though we do not see jobs like those in the video today, the new inventions that led up to more efficient printing pushed for all the technological innovations we now have.
I find it interesting that society was at a point where print was something that was essential to everything. The video stated the importance that everything revolved around print such as: schools, religion, banking, etc. Now, looking back, that seems absurd because I go to class and I see people on e-books, not text books. I go to church, and most people have the bible app on their phone. Chase bank is a life-saver to develop an app for banking on my phone. There are so many things that have evolved in society from this print industry. I bet the people who work on developing these new forms of electronic prints would have been the people who were working on actual print documents back in that generation.
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